Poem by John Keats

On Death

1

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.

2

How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake. 

1. Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats
2. O! Were I One of the Olympian Twelve
3. Oh, I Am Frighten'd with Most Hateful Thoughts!
4. Folly's Song
5. Fragment of an Ode to Maia

George Horton On Death ("Deceitful worm, that undermines the clay")

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